ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology was the first comprehensive and international anthology dedicated to green criminology. It presented green criminology to an international audience, described the state of the field, offered a description of a range of environmental issues of regional and global importance, and argued for continued criminological attention to environmental crimes and harms, setting an agenda for further study.

In the six years since its publication, the field has continued to grow and thrive. This revised and expanded second edition of the Handbook reflects new methodological orientations, new locations of study such as Asia, Canada and South America, and new responses to environmental harms. While a number of the original chapters have been revised, the second edition offers a range of fresh chapters covering new and emerging areas of study, such as:

  • conservation criminology,
  • eco-feminism,
  • environmental victimology,
  • fracking,
  • migration and eco-rights, and
  • e-waste.

This handbook continues to define and capture the field of green criminology and is essential reading for students and researchers engaged in green crime and environmental harm.

chapter |36 pages

Introduction

New horizons, ongoing and emerging issues and relationships in green criminology

part I|128 pages

History, theory and methods

chapter 1|13 pages

The growth of a field

A short history of a ‘green’ criminology

chapter 2|16 pages

The ordinary acts that contribute to ecocide

A criminological analysis

chapter 3|11 pages

Wildlife crime

A situational crime prevention perspective

part II|112 pages

International and transnational issues for a green criminology

chapter 9|20 pages

Climate crimes

The case of ExxonMobil

chapter 10|18 pages

Global environmental divides and dislocations

Climate apartheid, atmospheric injustice and the blighting of the planet

chapter 12|17 pages

Monopolising seeds, monopolising society

A guide to contemporary criminological research on biopiracy

chapter 13|21 pages

The War on Drugs and its invisible collateral damage

Environmental harm and climate change

chapter 14|17 pages

‘Greening’ injustice

Penal reform, carceral expansion and greenwashing

part III|124 pages

Region-specific problems

chapter 15|25 pages

The Amazon Rainforest

A green criminological perspective

chapter 17|16 pages

The Flint water crisis

A case study of state-sponsored environmental (in)justice

chapter 19|19 pages

Fracking the Rockies

The production of harm

chapter 20|15 pages

Corporate capitalism, environmental damage and the rule of law

The Magurchara gas explosion in Bangladesh

chapter 21|19 pages

Authoritarian environmentalism and environmental regulation enforcement

A case study of medical waste crime in northwestern China

part IV|94 pages

Relationships in green criminology

chapter 24|16 pages

Green criminology and the working class

Political ecology and the expanded implications of political economic analysis in green criminology

chapter 26|18 pages

Energy harms

‘Extreme energy’, fracking and water

chapter 27|14 pages

The uncertainty of community financial incentives for ‘fracking’

Pursuing ramifications for environmental justice

part V|76 pages

Relationships in green criminology

chapter 28|15 pages

A violent interspecies relationship

The case of animal sexual assault

chapter 29|17 pages

The victimisation of women, children and non-human species through trafficking and trade

Crimes understood through an ecofeminist perspective

chapter 32|16 pages

Environmental justice, animal rights and total liberation

From conflict and distance to points of common focus

part VI|110 pages

Relationships in green criminology

chapter 34|19 pages

Green crime on the reservation

A spatio-temporal analysis of U.S. Native American reservations 2011–2015

chapter 35|17 pages

The disappearing land

Coastal land loss and environmental crime

chapter 37|20 pages

Consumed by the crisis

Green criminology and cultural criminology

chapter 38|19 pages

Littering in the Northeast of England

A sign of social disorganisation?